Disintegration

It was a week of almost incredible
military events. In six days the western Allied armies took 189,611
prisoners; in all their battles in World War I the Americans had taken
less than one-third of that total. In those six days at least 25,000
Germans had been killed or wounded. These were the casualties of a
Wehrmacht falling swiftly apart.

To the Last. There was no overall pattern to German resistance. Along
the Netherlands front, in the crisscross of canals, Canadians had to
battle for every yard as they drove to link up with another drop of
airborne troops. There...